Arriving at the airport in Puerto Maldonado, the Inkaterra folks met me right on schedule. Would you mind terribly, they asked, a group from Portugal will be joining you. Well, I though, not what I expected but what's a gal to do.

So here they are, six twenty-five year olds from Portugal who had just finished three nights camping out, hiking the Inka Trail to Machu Picchu. Also there was one more guy, a bit older, from Switzerland. This was going to be different!